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Crime And Punishment (1935 French Film)
''Crime and Punishment'' (French: ''Crime et châtiment'') is a 1935 French crime drama film directed by Pierre Chenal and produced by Michel Kagansky starring Harry Baur, Pierre Blanchar and Madeleine Ozeray. It is an adaptation of the 1866 novel of the same name by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The same year a separate American film adaptation was made featuring Peter Lorre. The film's sets were designed by the art director Aimé Bazin. Chenal rejected Bazin's original designs as too realistic and historically faithful, as he wished to create a more expressionist ambience for the film. Critical reception Writing for ''The Spectator'' in 1936, Graham Greene gave the film a moderately good review, praising the direction and the camerawork particularly during the murder scene, the fidelity of the film to the text upon which it was based, and the acting of Pierre Blanchar in portraying Raskolnikov. Of Harry Bauer's portrayal of Porphyrius, Greene described the acting as "a lovely performanc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Chenal
Pierre Chenal (; 5 December 1904 – 23 December 1990) was a French director and screenwriter who flourished in the 1930s. He was married to Czech-born French film actress Florence Marly from 1937 to 1955. Work Chenal was best known for film noir thrillers such as the 1937 film ''L'Alibi (1937 film), L'Alibi'', where he worked with Erich von Stroheim and Louis Jouvet. In 1939 he made ''Le Dernier Tournant'', the first of many film treatments of James M. Cain's celebrated novel, ''The Postman Always Rings Twice (novel), The Postman Always Rings Twice''. Chenal was Jewish and was forced in 1942 to flee German occupation of France during World War II, occupied France with his wife, Czech actress Florence Marly, for South America. He made a number of films while living in Argentina and more in France after the war; but his post-war work never achieved the success and popularity of his pre-war efforts.], Flammarion, Paris, 1975, References External links Pierre Chenal at the Tu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre (; born László Löwenstein, ; June 26, 1904 – March 23, 1964) was a Hungarian and American actor, active first in Europe and later in the United States. Known for his timidly devious characters, his appearance, and accented voice, he was frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner. He has been caricatured throughout his life and his cultural legacy remains in media today. He began his stage career in Vienna, in the Austro-Hungarian Empire, before moving to Germany, where he worked first on the stage, then in film, in Berlin during the late 1920s and early 1930s. Lorre, who was Jewish, left Germany after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came to power. Lorre caused an international sensation in the Weimar Republic–era film ''M (1931 film), M'' (1931) where he portrayed a serial killer who preys on little girls. His second English-language film was Alfred Hitchcock's ''The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934 film), The Man Who Knew Too Much'' (1934), made in the United K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcel Delaître
Marcel Delaître (1888–1963) was a French film and stage actor.Crisp p.94 Selected filmography * '' Happy Hearts'' (1932) * ''Lilac'' (1932) * '' Poliche'' (1934) * ''Street Without a Name'' (1934) * ''Crime and Punishment'' (1935) * '' Girls of Paris'' (1936) * '' The Gardens of Murcia'' (1936) * '' Return at Dawn'' (1938) * '' Women's Prison'' (1938) * ''The Puritan'' (1938) * '' J'accuse!'' (1938) * '' Immediate Call'' (1939) * ''Paradise Lost'' (1940) * '' Strange Suzy'' (1941) * '' Colonel Pontcarral'' (1942) * '' Le Corbeau'' (1943) * '' First on the Rope'' (1944) * '' Father Goriot'' (1945) * '' The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (1945) * '' Night Warning'' (1946) * '' The Queen's Necklace'' (1946) * '' Special Mission'' (1946) * '' Raboliot'' (1946) * '' The Lost Village'' (1947) * ''Something to Sing About'' (1947) * '' The Secret of Monte Cristo'' (1948) * '' Rocambole'' (1948) * '' The Revenge of Baccarat'' (1948) * '' Du Guesclin'' (1949) * '' The King'' (1949) * '' God Needs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Douking
Georges Douking (born Georges Ladoubée; 6 August 1902 – 20 October 1987) was a French stage, film, and television actor. He also directed stage plays such as the premier presentation of Jean Giraudoux's ''Sodom and Gomorrah'' at the Théâtre Hébertot in 1943. He is perhaps best known for his role in the surreal 1972 comedy ''The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie''. He was one of the favorite actors of the French filmmaker Pierre Chenal. Douking appeared in more than 75 films between 1934 and 1981.filmography of Georges Douking at Partial filmography *1934: '' |
Aimé Clariond
Aimé Clariond (10 May 1894 – 31 December 1959) was a French stage and film actor. Clariond was born in Périgueux, Dordogne, France and died in Paris. Selected filmography * '' The Brothers Karamazov'' (1931) - Ivan Karamazoff * '' Amourous Adventure'' (1932) * '' Take Care of Amelie'' (1932) * '' The Faceless Voice'' (1933) - Maître Clément * ''Mariage à responsabilité limitée'' (1934) * '' Beauty of the Night'' (1934) - Claude Davène * ''Sans famille'' (1934) - James Milligan * '' Prince Jean'' (1934) - Le baron d'Arnheim * '' La Route impériale'' (1935) - Col. Stark * ''Crime and Punishment'' (1935) - Loujine * ''Lucrezia Borgia'' (1935) - Niccollo Machiavelli * '' Widow's Island'' (1937) - Richard Trent * '' The Lie of Nina Petrovna'' (1937) - Baron Engern * ''La Marseillaise'' (1938) - Monsieur de Saint Laurent * '' Boys' School'' (1938) - M. Boisse - le directeur * '' The Little Thing'' (1938) - Monsieur Eyssette père * ''Katia'' (1938) - Le comte Schowaloff * ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexandre Rignault
Alexandre Rignault (14 February 1901 – 2 April 1985) was a French actor. He appeared in more than a hundred films between 1931 and 1985. Biography He was born on February 14, 1901 in Paris 5th, at his parents' home, rue Guy-de-La-Brosse. His father was a mechanic, and his mother was a housewife. In the mid-1920s, after having worked in various professions, he desired to become an actor. Attracted to the theater, he wrote to Louis Jouvet to offer his services. Jouvet received him and hired him to play the utility in his troupe. For about fifteen years, Rignault was cast in works by Nicolas Gogol, Marcel Achard and Jules Romains, and participated in the creation of three plays by Jean Giraudoux: Amphitryon 38 (1929), Intermezzo (1933), at the Comédie des Champs-Élysées, and Ondine (1939) at the Théâtre de l'Athénée. After World War II, he was still seen in several plays, by Paul Claudel among others, presented at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier. For his film debut in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Marcelle Géniat
Marcelle Géniat (1881-1959) was a French film actress.Goble p. 121 She was born Eugénie Pauline Martin in St. Petersburg, Russia, to French parents. Partial filmography * ''Le retour du passé'' (1916) * ''L'imprévu'' (1917) - Hélène Ravenel * ''Serments'' (1931) - La baronne de Murnau * ''La fusée'' (1933) - Marie Girbal * ''Quelqu'un a tué...'' (1933) * ''Le billet de mille'' (1935) - La rôdeuse * ''Crime and Punishment'' (1935) - Madame Raskolnikov * '' The Mysteries of Paris'' (1935) - La Chouette * '' The Green Domino'' (1935) - Mme de Fallec * '' La Garçonne'' (1936) - Tante Sylvestre * ''They Were Five'' (1936) - La grand' mère * ''La joueuse d'orgue'' (1936) - Véronique * '' The Man of the Hour'' (1937) - Alphonsine Boulard - la mère d'Alfred * ''La Glu'' (1938) - Marie des Anges * '' The Strange Monsieur Victor'' (1938) - La mère de Victor * ''Satan's Paradise'' (1938) - La marquise d'Amaral * '' Crossroads'' (1938) - Mme. Pelletier * '' The Rebel'' (1938) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lucienne Le Marchand '' (1953)
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Lucienne Le Marchand (15 November 1908 – 9 February 1992) was a Belgian stage, film and television actress.Goble p.115 Selected filmography * ''Song of Farewell'' (1934) * ''Crime and Punishment'' (1935) * ''The Mysteries of Paris'' (1935) * '' Beautiful Days'' (1935) * ''Yoshiwara'' (1937) * '' The Corsican Brothers'' (1939) * '' Tobias Is an Angel'' (1940) * ''Fantômas'' (1946) *''Judicial Error'' (1948) * ''The Unexpected Voyager'' (1950) * '' Extravagant Theodora'' (1950) * '' The Case of Doctor Galloy'' (1951) * '' The Red Head'' (1952) * ''The Drunkard ''The Drunkard; or, The Fallen Saved'' is an American temperance play first performed on February 12, 1844. References Bibliography * Goble, Alan. ''The Complete Index to Literary ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodion Raskolnikov
Rodion Romanovich Raskolnikov ( pre-reform Russian: ; post-reform rus, Родион Романович Раскольников, Rodión Románovich Raskólʹnikov, rədʲɪˈon rɐˈmanəvʲɪtɕ rɐˈskolʲnʲɪkəf) is the fictional protagonist of the 1866 novel ''Crime and Punishment'' by Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The name Raskolnikov derives from the Russian ''raskolnik'' meaning " schismatic" (traditionally referring to a member of the Old Believer movement). The name '' Rodion'' comes from Greek and indicates an inhabitant of Rhodes. Raskolnikov is a young ex-law student living in extreme poverty in Saint Petersburg. He lives in a tiny garret which he rents, although due to a lack of funds has been avoiding payment for quite some time. He sleeps on a couch using old clothes as a pillow, and due to lack of money eats very rarely. He is handsome and intelligent, though generally disliked by fellow students. He is devoted to his sister (Avdotya Romanovna Raskolnikova) and his mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Graham Greene
Henry Graham Greene (2 October 1904 – 3 April 1991) was an English writer and journalist regarded by many as one of the leading novelists of the 20th century. Combining literary acclaim with widespread popularity, Greene acquired a reputation early in his lifetime as a major writer, both of serious Catholic literary revival, Catholic novels, and of thrillers (or "entertainments" as he termed them). He was shortlisted for the Nobel Prize in Literature several times. Through 67 years of writing, which included over 25 novels, he explored the conflicting moral and political issues of the modern world. ''The Power and the Glory'' won the 1941 Hawthornden Prize and ''The Heart of the Matter'' won the 1948 James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the Best of the James Tait Black. Greene was awarded the 1968 Shakespeare Prize and the 1981 Jerusalem Prize. Several of his stories have been filmed, some more than once, and he collaborated with filmmaker Carol Reed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Spectator
''The Spectator'' is a weekly British political and cultural news magazine. It was first published in July 1828, making it the oldest surviving magazine in the world. ''The Spectator'' is politically conservative, and its principal subject areas are politics and culture. Alongside columns and features on current affairs, the magazine also contains arts pages on books, music, opera, film, and TV reviews. It had an average circulation of 107,812 as of December 2023, excluding Australia. Editorship of the magazine has often been a step on the ladder to high office in the Conservative Party in the United Kingdom. Past editors include Boris Johnson (1999–2005) and other former cabinet members Ian Gilmour (1954–1959), Iain Macleod (1963–1965), and Nigel Lawson (1966–1970). The former Conservative MP Michael Gove took over from Fraser Nelson as editor on 4 October 2024. Today, the magazine is a print-digital hybrid. In 2020, ''The Spectator'' became the longest-live ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial support of Charles Scribner, as a printing press to serve the Princeton community in 1905. Its distinctive building was constructed in 1911 on William Street in Princeton. Its first book was a new 1912 edition of John Witherspoon's ''Lectures on Moral Philosophy.'' History Princeton University Press was founded in 1905 by a recent Princeton graduate, Whitney Darrow, with financial support from another Princetonian, Charles Scribner II. Darrow and Scribner purchased the equipment and assumed the operations of two already existing local publishers, that of the ''Princeton Alumni Weekly'' and the Princeton Press. The new press printed both local newspapers, university documents, '' The Daily Princetonian'', and later added book publishing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
